Nurse Scientist

Qualifications

• Education
• Bachelor’s and Master’s degree, one of which must be in nursing
• Doctoral degree in medical field
• Experience
• Five years clinical nursing experience
• Licenses and Certifications
• Required:
• RN - Registered Nurse - Texas State Licensure - Texas Board of Nursing_PSV Compact Licensure – Must obtain permanent Texas license within 60 days (if establishing Texas residency)
• Magnet ANCC-recognized certification (HM)

Skills and Abilities

Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations.

Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security.

Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles.

Acts as effective change agent.

Strong assessment, organizational and problem-solving skills as evidenced by capacity to prioritize multiple tasks and role components.

Demonstrates expert time management skills.

Essential Functions

People Essential Functions

• Serves as a consultant to nursing leadership, executives, and nurses to develop, implement and sustain evidence-based high impact initiatives.
• Promotes, supports, and facilitates individuals engaging in research activities to advance research in practice: evidence-based practice, the conduct of research, research utilization, and research dissemination.
• Serves as an active member of the Research Council. Coordinates, guides, leads, and provides support for council activities and serves as the liaison to the nursing shared governance structure.
• Fosters staff engagement by demonstrating active listening, requesting, and acknowledging feedback, providing rationale when appropriate, and supporting organizational goals.
• Contributes towards improvement of department scores for employee engagement, i.e., peer-to-peer accountability.

Service Essential Functions

• Facilitates and directs the development of interdepartmental and interprofessional research activities, including generating individual and/or group programs of research.
• Encourages and promotes nursing publications in peer reviewed journals.

Quality/Safety Essential Functions

• Identifies nursing quality metrics outliers and creates evidence-based nursing interventions for improvement.
• Supports hospital efforts to improve quality care, linking research to improved patient outcomes.
• Plans, directs, and ensures execution and sustainability of all initiatives to ensure that the goals of the program are met.
• In collaboration with the Director, develops program outcome measures and monitors for sustainability.
• Conducts investigator-initiated research that supports and adds to nursing’s scientific foundation.

Finance Essential Functions

• Seeks research funding through grant application.
• Affords departments and individual healthcare professionals to apply and obtain such funding for research projects and activities.
• Implements department strategies to achieve financial target and mentors others to do the same, optimizing efficiency and other areas according to department specifications.
• Utilizes resources with cost effectiveness and value creation in mind. Self-motivated to independently manage time effectively and prioritize daily tasks, assisting coworkers as needed.

Growth/Innovation Essential Functions

• Develops initiatives and held accountable for increasing the number of HM nursing research, EBP and quality improvement dissemination activities at the national and international level.
• Generates and communicates new ideas to lead teams to creative strategies that improve quality or service and impact entity departments and address organization or department priorities. Analyzes and presents research and quality improvement data.
• Fosters an institutional environment conducive to the conduct of inquiry, research, and evidence-based practice, as evidenced by the number of nurse-generated projects.
• Sets own development needs and takes appropriate action. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management. Completes and updates the My Development Plan on an on-going basis.

Supplemental Requirements

• Work Attire
• No uniform
• No scrubs
• Business professional
• No other (department approved)
• On Call
• No
• May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area
• Yes
• May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area
• No

Company Profile

Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital opened in June 2017. This 725,000-square-foot, full-service, acute-care hospital offers many of the same services as our flagship hospital in the Texas Medical Center. Also, on the beautiful hospital campus, located at the intersection of Interstate 45 and Texas State Highway 242, are two medical office buildings, which include a Breast Care Center; Cancer Center; infusion center; heart and vascular services; neurology; orthopedics and sports medicine; rehabilitation services; wellness services; an outpatient laboratory; and several other multispecialty physician practices. In January 2022, Houston Methodist The Woodlands opened Healing Tower — a $250 million expansion project that added 106 beds, focused on medical-surgical and women’s services, and provided nine operating rooms. The project also included the expansion of the endoscopy center, emergency department and diagnostic imaging department with an enhanced neurodiagnostic and interventional center.

Houston Methodist is an Equal Opportunity Employer.